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Enter our What Paradox® Is contest! Paradox Community is having a contest! Tell us what Paradox® is to you by clicking on the link below and filling out the form. We'll post the entries on this page as they come in, along with the name of the contributor, and you get to vote on your favorite. The winner will receive a free @ParadoxCommunity.com email address! Entries were accepted through 20 June 2001. Votes were accepted from 21 June 2001 through 30 June 2001. Votes were collected and compiled by Paradox and the Corel® Web Server OCX, and the winner was announced on 01 July 2001. And the winner is... Laurie McIntosh: 12. Paradox is like a large fish. It's got a large number of scales, and gills through which it can breathe. A nocturnal surface dweller, it moves by wafting its tentacles in a sort of corrugated, wave like motion... no hold on, that's not Paradox... what was I thinking of... I'd better start again. Okay, I've rethought this and now realise that Paradox has few, if any, piscatorial qualities and I can only throw myself on the mercy of the judges. What Paradox IS is my point of difference. I haven't thought about this for some time, I must admit, having left the bosum of the Bretheren of Freelance Developers and now sup at the Tainted Chalice of Permanent Employment, but having Paradox in my tool kit just made me better equipped for those jobs which required a desk-top databasing solution. It made me seem more far-sighted - a prospective client's going on and on about "Access this" and "Access that", and then I make her wait as I light a match on the sole of my shoe and light my cigarette and adjust my hat and slouch a little lower in my seat and say to her "Sure. Sure, Genius. What happens if you end up with more than 25 users?" and I tap my fingers lightly together and squint at her through a veil of smoke as she looks on confused, and then mildly panicky as she realises that 25 users is the ceiling for what all of the Access developers are offering her. She comes around her desk and goes down on a tremulous knee in front of me and says "Oh, Mr McIntosh, can you save me?" and I snort and say "Sure Sugar. But I ain't cheap." And I light another cigarette. And I light one for her too. Well, maybe that's not the way it is for you in your developer/client relationship, but that's the way I remember it. A hero of mine, quantum physicist Richard Feynman, used to tell his students something along the lines of this: "Many of you will leave here and chase after the tail of the comet. [He meant researching mainstream physics dogma or researching the New Big Thing, whatever that happened to be at the time.] But I say to you that the greatest scientific discoveries have come not from those who followed the footsteps of others but veered off on their own, unfashionable path. Can I urge at least some of you, in the name of originality, to not chase after the comet but to find your own path - it may cost some of you your careers, but it is these paths that have the greatest potential for advancing mankind's knowledge of the universe." Well, Paradox is not the tail of the comet, but those of us who know it and use it know that there's far more potential here than in its rivals. Laurie McIntosh, SubritzkyLine Other Contest Entries: 01. Paradox is the most flexible tool I have available for building robust, flexible, and stable database applications for my customers. Between its relational database management system, easy to build user interface, report building capability, and ad hoc query capability I have yet to have a customer ask for a feature I could not provide with Paradox. In addition, several of our applications are over 7 years old and while they have been extensively expanded, the core code has not needed to be changed as we progressed from Paradox 1.0 through Paradox 10. Given all that, the only 'Paradox' is why someone would use any other desktop database! Carolyn Wendover, McCallie Associates, Inc. 02. 1. A wonderful software development tool Fridolin Kathan, SPS GmbH 03. Is a program that you can start using right away to get simple jobs done, grow into the programming side gradually by using small pieces of code. After which you can get more and more detail in the program using more code. Harold Ducote, Frank's Casing Crew 04. It is my tool that allows me to express whatever Idea I have in mind. Hanno van Pelt, Nassor 05. A wonderful way to keep the old grey cells occupied :o), in other words, at this stage just a hobby. This is not to say that it hasn't had its practical uses. Thanks to the indexing features I've been able to streamline my business' partslist, which had sprawled to some 3500 lines due to inconsistencies in numbering etc., to about half that. For semiconductor replacements I've built a small application where I enter then necessary/available data and known substitutes for a device. Again with sorting by desired parameters it helps me to decide if I got a substitute in stock or if I have to purchase one. Ok it's small fry but I'm working at it and having fun :o) Elmar von Muralt, E M Electronics 06. Paradox and the BDE is my development system of choice; the database/development IDE against which I measure all others I meet. Very often a competing or alternative product is superior to some areas of Paradox/BDE in several ways, but I haven't yet discovered a genuinely superior development system. Mike Irwin [CTech] 07. Reliable record keeping of 10 years of auto repairs and inventory tracking. Started with PDox3.5 way back when and have been using PDox 4.5 Dos to present.Last year bought PDox 9 and have been working on the re-write since then. I read the news groups continualy for Ideas and solutions, they've been very helpful. Ron Grosz, Rondor Import Service 08. Paradox 7 Muthukumar, ARAB 09. Paradox is the finest database tool developed to date. It has allowed me to feed my family for a decade! Keith J. Kunz, S L C Data Consultants, Inc. 10. The answer to what I want to do next. Almost without fail, Paradox has been ready with the set of tools I needed to accomplish a new goal in my work. Tony McGuire, Jedstar Technologies Inc. 11. A tool. A great, swiss army knife of a tool. A precision instrument of a tool. And many things in between. I do problem solving for a living. Paradox is a big help there. It helps me design database solutions and lets me build things from the mundane (the system that tracks my couple of thousand CDs, Cassetts, LPs, Reel tapes, MP3s) to the major (a system that tracks cervical cancer patients to ensure their cases are tracked and followups are completed for 10 years following last occurance, which can save a life). How many tools can handle your CDs and your medical records? Its a floor wax. Its a desert topping... A Living! <G> Denn Santoro, Resource Development Associates 13. As a data manipulation tool, what can I say? Paradox allows me to complete my data tasks quickly so I can spend more time doing other things.(golf!) Paul Gauthier, Network Research Inc. 14. Paradox is the most user-Friendly, flexible tool for database work that I have come across. Its ability to break things down in ways that range from ridiculously simple to extraordinarily complex make me wonder why the world seems set on using that "other database" (whose name shall go unmentioned). I have worked myself from a database know-nothing to a reasonably competent DBA in the process of 3 years, and I think I could have done it faster if I didn't have to work.<g> I handle source files everyday with anywhere from 50,000 to 1 million records. These files are used to update a database that tracks Instant tickets for the California Lottery. At any given time, I have from 40 to 50 games running, with each game having from 100 to 450 thousand packs. Only Paradox allows me to write a legible, coherent system for not only updating the database, but also automating the entire reporting process and Web update. And it does this in about an hour, all by itself, before I come in to work. Power? Paradox has the Power. Paradox is and will be my tool of choice, and I will promote its use anywhere I go. Lead On, Corel!! Allen Troxell, GTech Corporation 15. For me it is pure and simple-Data. Using Paradox, I convinced our hospital administrators we were busy enough to get another doctor. I am home more often and get to be with my wife & kids. Craig Futterman, MD, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children 16. Paradox comes in two packages. The software provides capability to develop most any database application. The Paradox Community (the news group, i.e., the people) provides answers to questions, alternative ways of accomplishing a task or goal, insights based on experience, and thoughts that trigger new features to an application or a new application. It is valuable just to lurk! Stacy Rowley, First Service Consulting 17. Paradox is for the home business, the personal address book, and for all the volunteer work I can do. From the High School class reunion to the pre-registration and check in and statistical information for a yearly state wide Boy Scout event. All without formal instruction in data base development. It is finding ideas and solutions on the newsgroups as well as timely help and advice. It is for finding faster and better ways to do the things that take time away from the other important things in life. All this and I am just a small fry in the ever expanding world of Paradox. Kelly O'Neil 18. Paradox is my private addiction, my not so secret obsession. My creative medium. My doodle-pad. My Rubic cube with infinite solutions. My brain's parallel thread, its database desktop. A safe alternative to inter-galaxial travel! (I'd never admit this to my wife though!!) It also helps run our department which is great. Paul Weston, Neurology Dept Women's & Children's Hospital Adelaide S. Aust. 19. An amalgam of enigmas surrounded by an enlightened idiom granting paradoxical deliverance to its faithful followers. Rick Kelly 20. There's no other way to put it: Paradox is like a Harley - all you have to do is tame it. Paul Cronk 21. I'd learned Paradox since its DOS age, I was begin fresh and known nothing about programming, but with Paradox I'd setup my own company now and have designed a major system for Payless ShoeSource main oversea's office and are still running for 7 years now... Payless's computer system has now become standard in the footwear industry. Richard Hsu 22. (belated entry) The database of choice. Not just the one that came in the box, the one you choose. Steve Caple Paradox Community Newsgroups |
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